How many generations back do your family photos go?

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Posted: 11/29/2014 5:55:47 PM EDT

I have a few pics with my Great Grandparents, early 1900's Ireland.

That's as far back as mine go.

How about you?

Posted: 11/29/2014 5:56:33 PM EDT

[#1]

Picture of grandparents.

No one could afford crayons before them.

Posted: 11/29/2014 5:57:46 PM EDT

[#2]

None.

After my parents died, my sister decided who got what photos.

Posted: 11/29/2014 5:59:18 PM EDT

[#3]

We have pics going back to the 1870's. My Greatx6 uncle became a lawyer after the civil war. His business card had his picture on it. Amazingly innovative for the period and I bet it was as expensive as hell too!

Posted: 11/29/2014 5:59:21 PM EDT

[#4]

I have a few from early 1900's/ late 1800's. The oldest is from civil war era.

Posted: 11/29/2014 6:00:29 PM EDT

[#5]

My mom has 3 or 4 pictures from the late 1800's of her ancestors.

My dad has 1 or 2, same time frame, for his.

Posted: 11/29/2014 6:04:10 PM EDT

[#6]

I've only got a few pics of my father. That's it.

Posted: 11/29/2014 6:08:03 PM EDT

[#7]

There's a photo of my grandpappy in law in the living room. I think my sister has photos from several generations back

Posted: 11/29/2014 6:10:23 PM EDT

[#8]

My side. 1880s Hawaii. My great-great grand parents arriving from Japan.

Posted: 11/29/2014 6:11:57 PM EDT

[#9]

There's a few photos of my great great grandfather and his wife. They must have been taken in the late 1880's or early 90's.

Posted: 11/29/2014 6:16:59 PM EDT

[#10]

Good subject. 1930's for my mother's parents. Back in about 1996 a distant cousin (my mother's mother's side) met us and showed us stuff with tin types dating back to the Civil War. We were supposed to all be mailed copies of stuff, but it never happened.

Posted: 11/29/2014 6:18:13 PM EDT

[#11]

I have a picture of my great, great, great uncle from the Civil War. Not this one, the one in 1864.

Posted: 11/29/2014 6:19:09 PM EDT

[#12]

I have glass negative pictures of relatives from the late 1800's. Antipass and Polly Bisbee.

Other first names in my family tree:

Asia
America
Jedidiah
Zebulon
Julian

Posted: 11/29/2014 6:26:54 PM EDT

[#13]

I have some of my grandparents, because I took them. All the old photos were lost in a house fire back in the 80's.

Posted: 11/29/2014 6:28:17 PM EDT

[#14]

I have a picture of my great-great-grandfather standing on his fishing boat that the Nazis later burned. My Mom and one aunt are named after the boat. Opa had a huge family but lost all but one of his siblings in the war.

My paternal grandfather was a first generation Dutch American who went to Europe as an interpreter and met my maternal grandparents there, they came to the US after the war trying to get into the US before my mother was born so she'd be a citizen, they didn't make it, she was born in Canada.

Posted: 11/29/2014 6:28:48 PM EDT

[#15]

1905 or so. Although I have relatives that have them earlier but I've only recently found out who I am let alone know them.

Posted: 11/29/2014 6:28:52 PM EDT

[#16]

Great grandparents circa 1900

We were dirt farmers before then

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Posted: 11/29/2014 6:30:04 PM EDT

[#17]

Have one of my great grandfather from the late 1800s

Posted: 11/29/2014 6:38:45 PM EDT

[#18]

I don't know how old they are...mid 1800s.......great great grandparents. ..my sister has the books of the family history. They took a lot of group family photos after someone died. Everyone standing around a headstone from my mother's side. Last name is Hancock on the stone. I have early photos of my grandmother as a baby and grandparents be for and after mother was born.

Posted: 11/29/2014 6:42:04 PM EDT

[#19]

Three, unless you count rock drawings from cavemen.

Posted: 11/29/2014 6:45:13 PM EDT

[#20]

question is, how forward do they go?

I don't have hardly any pictures past 2000.

Posted: 11/29/2014 11:24:09 PM EDT

[#21]

There are some photos of Mom's side going back to just after the Civil War. Being the youngest, Dad didn't get many momentos of his parents since he was still a young child when they died. One of my cousins got a lot of old photos and letters dating to the Civil War era and we're trying to get those copied and distributed to all the interested extended family members.

Posted: 11/29/2014 11:48:17 PM EDT

[#22]

The Freddie Kruger looking guy in the back ground is my great grandfather. The young girl is my grandma, she would be around 100 today.

Posted: 11/29/2014 11:49:20 PM EDT

[#23]

Mid 1800s

Posted: 11/29/2014 11:56:33 PM EDT

[#24]

A group photo from a rural school in 1906 includes my grandmother and several of her sisters. . Have a hand painted photo of my grandfather when he was a WWI pilot.

Posted: 11/29/2014 11:57:41 PM EDT

[#25]

double tap

Posted: 11/29/2014 11:58:53 PM EDT

[#26]

About half of my life and that's it....

Posted: 11/30/2014 12:36:24 AM EDT

[#27]

Our family photos start with this guy - Seth Kinman

Posted: 11/30/2014 12:39:24 AM EDT

[#28]

Some tin types around somewhere. Probably from the 1860s or 70s But we have really long generations, My Grandfather was born in 1863 and my dad in 1918. I was 1955 and my daughter 1993.

A few WW1

Posted: 11/30/2014 12:47:47 AM EDT

[#29]

There's a pic at my parent's house of my great grandfather holding me as an infant. They also have some photos of my great great grandparents in a formal setting as well.

Posted: 11/30/2014 1:18:51 AM EDT

[#30]

Late 1800s.

Posted: 11/30/2014 1:45:45 AM EDT

[#31]

This picture from the 1890s is probably the oldest I have.

The bearded guy sitting down is my great-great-great-great grandfather. Someone wrote a history of the county he spent most of his life in, and the comment made about him was that he "had such steel nerves he could hold a rifle so steady he could take a deer in full stride at 200 yards."

Posted: 11/30/2014 1:46:06 AM EDT

[#32]

I have photos going back five generations - to the late 1800's.

Posted: 11/30/2014 1:50:02 AM EDT

[#33]

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None.

After my parents died, my sister decided who got what photos.

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Call her up... Tell her that you and your scanner and laptop are coming over to spend the day making copies of family photos. Tell her to have them out and ready to go.

Posted: 11/30/2014 1:54:14 AM EDT

[#34]

The oldest I've seen from my Dad's side of the family are the 1940's.

Posted: 11/30/2014 2:01:32 AM EDT

[#35]

The oldest I can think of is of my great-grandparents wedding photos from about 1901.

What's crazy about it is when my friends first saw it, they asked when I did the old-timey photo shoot thing, and who all of the other people were. Apparently, I'm a dead ringer for my great grand dad.

ETA: I also have a photo of my great grand father (from the other side of the family) in his cavalry uniform when he left for the Spanish-American War. So, 1898-ish.

Posted: 11/30/2014 2:09:06 AM EDT

[#36]

Not a photograph picture or a family member but supposedly there is an oil painting of Leopold 2 with one of the hunting dogs my family bred that was his favorite hunting dog or some such.

Posted: 11/30/2014 2:10:18 AM EDT

[#37]

I have a picture of my grandpa (dads dad) from his

high school basketball team dated 1913-1914

Said picture

Posted: 11/30/2014 2:11:26 AM EDT

[#38]

Late 1800's, Austro-Hungarian Cavalryman is about the oldest I've got.

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